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The Decree of Themistocles or Troezen Inscription is an ancient Greek inscription, found at Troezen, discussing Greek strategy in the Greco-Persian Wars, purported to have been issued by the Athenian assembly under the guidance of Themistocles.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 20 relations: Achaemenid destruction of Athens, Aeschines, Ancient Greek, Artemisium, Attica, Battle of Artemisium, Battle of Thermopylae, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Boeotia, Demosthenes, Ecclesia (ancient Greece), Greco-Persian Wars, Herodotus, Isthmus of Corinth, Michael H. Jameson, Peloponnese, Salamis Island, Stoichedon, Themistocles, Troezen.

  2. Greco-Persian Wars
  3. History of Classical Athens

Achaemenid destruction of Athens

During the second Persian invasion of Greece, which took place between 480 and 479 BCE, Athens was captured and subsequently destroyed by the Achaemenid Empire. Decree of Themistocles and Achaemenid destruction of Athens are Greco-Persian Wars.

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Aeschines

Aeschines (Greek: Aischínēs Atromḗtou Kothōkídēs; 389314 BC) was a Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Artemisium

Artemisium or Artemision (Greek: Ἀρτεμίσιον) is a cape in northern Euboea, Greece.

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Attica

Attica (Αττική, Ancient Greek Attikḗ or, or), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and the core city of the metropolitan area, as well as its surrounding suburban cities and towns.

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Battle of Artemisium

The Battle of Artemisium or Artemision was a series of naval engagements over three days during the second Persian invasion of Greece.

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Battle of Thermopylae

The Battle of Thermopylae (Greek) took place during the second Persian invasion of Greece.

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Benjamin Dean Meritt

Benjamin Dean Meritt (March 31, 1899 in Durham, North Carolina – July 7, 1989 in Austin, Texas) was a classical scholar, professor and epigraphist of ancient Greece.

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Boeotia

Boeotia, sometimes Latinized as Boiotia or Beotia (Βοιωτία; modern:; ancient) is one of the regional units of Greece.

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Demosthenes

Demosthenes (translit;; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens.

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Ecclesia (ancient Greece)

The ecclesia or ekklesia (ἐκκλησία) was the assembly of the citizens in city-states of ancient Greece.

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Greco-Persian Wars

The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.

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Herodotus

Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.

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Isthmus of Corinth

The Isthmus of Corinth (Greek: Ισθμός της Κορίνθου) is the narrow land bridge which connects the Peloponnese peninsula with the rest of the mainland of Greece, near the city of Corinth.

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Michael H. Jameson

Michael Hamilton Jameson (London 15 October 1924 – 18 August 2004) was a classicist.

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Peloponnese

The Peloponnese, Peloponnesus (Pelopónnēsos) or Morea (Mōrèas; Mōriàs) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans.

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Salamis Island

Salamis (Salamís) or Salamina (label) is the largest Greek island in the Saronic Gulf, about from the coast of Piraeus and about west of Athens.

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Stoichedon

The stoichedon style of epigraphy (from στοιχηδόν, a Greek adverb meaning "in a row") was the practice of engraving ancient Greek inscriptions in capitals in such a way that the letters were aligned vertically as well as horizontally.

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Themistocles

Themistocles (Θεμιστοκλῆς) was an Athenian politician and general.

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Troezen

Troezen (ancient Greek: Τροιζήν, modern Greek: Τροιζήνα) is a small town and a former municipality in the northeastern Peloponnese, Greece, on the Argolid Peninsula.

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See also

Greco-Persian Wars

History of Classical Athens

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_of_Themistocles

Also known as Themistocles decree, Troezen Inscription.